Supreme Court of the United States May 26, 1941, 658 (Skiriotes v. Florida)

Mr. Chief Justice Hughes

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant, Lambiris Skiriotes, was convicted in the county court of Pinellas County, Florida, of the use on March 8, 1938, of diving equipment in the taking of sponges from the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida

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in violation of a state statute. Compiled General Laws of Florida (1927), § 8087.